Mediterranean Alluviation: Highlighting Vita-Finzi’s Scenario with hypothetical assessments

Abstract

Discovering a causal mechanism to account for detected cycles of alluviation in the Mediterranean region during the Holocene has been a matter of debate for more than three decades. It is very difficult if not impossible to refer Mediterranean erosion and alluviation in Holocene times to a monocausal approach; whether to the climatic dominance which brought by Vita-Finzi in his pioneering work (Mediterranean Valleys, 1969) or to the anthropogenic dominance of later scholars such as Van Andel and others. Mediterranean alluviation most probably yield a more complex multi-causal explanation between environmental context which is ecologically vulnerable environment, Geology and tectonic, climate fluctuations and human impact.